They took nails and hammers and started distressing the boards while I was at a PTA meeting.

Yep, their in their jammies.

My husband realizes how important pictures are to my blog posting, so he had the kids snap some pictures of him doing the construction.

Once he finished the construction I set to work painting the boards.

One of my favorite mixtures that I use is to paint is this dark brown paint from Michaels (you can find it in the paint section. It was $7 but well worth it because it's lasted so long) mixed with mineral spirits.

You don't need much, just a squeeze of paint and about a tsp of mineral spirits.

12 comments

I LOVE this! We marked our oldest's growth on the wall at our old house...then, we moved! Bad idea since it couldn't move with us. So this will be great and...like you said...movable! I'm so going to make this. I'm adding it to my list of 326 other projects I have lined up...ugh!

I AM SO HAPPY TO HAVE FOUND YOU, I JUST ENTERED A CONTEST ON DEAR LILLIE THIS MORNING BECAUSE MY NIECE IS HAVING A BABY THIS FALL, BUT I NEVER WIN, SO I CAN MAKE HER ONE MYSELF!! HANKS FOR SHARING!! AND BTW, LOVE THE POTTERY BARN KNOCK OFF AS WELL!!

I LOVE this idea! We have the very old school way of marking heights on the wall with a pen and ruler. :) I *think* we live in our forever house so I really love the idea of having all the marks on the wall just as my childhood home had. :)

Love this! We do the door frame thing on the girls' bedroom door. I don't mind that it's there lightly in pencil. I loved going in my parents' bathroom as a kid and seeing how much I'd grown. Thankfully, my parents live in the same house as I grew up in, but if they ever move, I know my mom will be very sad that it isn't something she could carry with her to the next house. Going to have to get a growth chart or something that I can move with us when we outgrow our current home. Thanks for the idea.

I bought a piece of wood and stained it and then tried to spray paint the numbers on with stencils but it didn't work so well. The paint spread under the stencils a bit because the scotch tape holding the stencils down didn't stick very well to the stained wood. Do you find your silhouette numbers and lines stick alright to your wood? Do you think it works because you didn't use stain or because those are more sticky than scotch tape? I want to redo my board on the backside but I haven't decided how I want to do it yet.

Just found you via Hometalk. I'm not into crafty things, but I wanted to tell you how very cool I think this is! I can't tell, but did you mark your kids' growth on the ruler as time passed? We had this on door moulding in the house I grew up in. The hardest thing for my mom to leave when she moved was that piece of moulding. Who knew! Really nice job.

copyright notice

Rachel Teodoro and Holy-Craft.com, 2010-present. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used and up to one photo can posted, provided that full and clear credit is given to Rachel Teodoro and Holy Craft with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.